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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

Bill Mollison

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen – whose language nobody can speak – to be very good permaculture people.
BILL MOLLISON

Desert People Teaching
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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Believe People Time Wasting
If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don’t listen to them that much.
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Looks People Want
Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.
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Assorted Evolution Mammals Orchard
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
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Consciousness Morality Nonsense
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road.
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Country Cutting Square
If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
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Forests Lose Teacher
You can’t cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.
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Boeing Knocking Something
We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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Growing Kitchen Looks
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help.
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Hands People Water
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
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Problem Simple World
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that’s a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand.
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People Philosophy Poison
Humans were my study animal now – I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals.
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Animal Night Opposite
Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.
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Home Physics Teaching
I think mine is a very rich life.
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Life Mine Rich Thinking

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

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